Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

In my practice, I blend Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles to guide you toward a meaningful life. We'll tackle challenges and align actions with your values, focusing on growth. This approach welcomes every part of you, offering a space for healing and self-discovery. If you're on the edge of change, craving a life that truly reflects who you are, I'm here to support you. Together, we can chart a path to a fulfilling life. Ready to begin? Reach out.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help clients "unstick" themselves from thoughts and emotions rather than becoming them. For example, with ACT the thought "I am bad" might sound like "I am having a thought that I am bad." ACT helps increase flexibility around challenges in life and how we approach and navigate them with mindfulness.

Mindfulness, an important part of self-acceptance, is a beautiful approach to giving yourself grace surrounding your challenges. It takes the "pressure" off of trying to be "perfect" and allows you to just live "as is" and adjust as you feel comfortable. My clients have found that this approach is calming and affirming for their lives. ACT allows a person to understand and observe that stressors come into one's life, but instead of resisting, learn to manage their state of being.

My primary orientation and the focus of my graduate training was ACT. ACT is about helping us live a life that's in alignment with our values.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ACT can help you experience your thoughts, feelings and sensations while still doing the things you value in your life.

I have used ACT in therapy for years for individuals and in groups. I’ve found ACT to be an excellent way to develop practices that help us cope with difficult emotions and unhelpful thoughts. Sometimes, we can successfully convince our minds to stop thinking particular thoughts, and that’s wonderful. But there are times when we can’t, and that’s where ACT can be really helpful in allowing us to make room for thoughts and feelings that just won’t go away.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a mindfulness-based therapy. It is about understanding our values so we can take values-driven actions despite thoughts and feelings that might slow us down. I find ACT to be widely effective for a variety of clients, especially neurodivergent clients.

We experience challenging feelings for a reason. I find that ACT helps us to make peace with these inner experiences and, rather than fighting against them, helps us to accept and use them as you move forward in your life.

ACT is another mindfulness based therapy that is focused on bringing your daily actions into alignment with your values. ACT can help people reduce avoidant tendencies, reduce the influence of troublesome thoughts/urges, and become more aware of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that can keep you feeling "stuck".

My core specialization, I use tenets of ACT in my work as it holistically encapsulates the essence of true healing: learning skills while being holistically congruent with oneself.

Acceptance and commitment therapy is a form of psychotherapy, as well as a branch of clinical behavior analysis. It is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility.

ACT helps develop awareness, self-compassion, and acceptance (different from agreement or "giving up"!). By unsticking ourselves from distressing thoughts and emotions, we can find actionable ways to live a life with value and meaning. An increasingly researched approach among folks with medical diagnoses, ACT is shown to significantly help manage anxiety, depression, and fear of recurrence, and improve quality of life.

ACT has proven to be a very thorough way to begin trauma and OCD treatment by helping clients not only commit to getting well, but also identify their basic values systems and understand how they can live within these systems better. I have found that many people have never fully identified what they value and how they can live within those value systems without shame.

Through ACT, I will work with you to eliminate the constant feelings of self-judgment and rumination of negative thoughts. We will work together to focus on radical acceptance of the moment and situation and remembering you are doing the best with the tools you have.

I began leaning into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques and methods while still in agency work in 2021, and continue using ACT successfully with clients in my current private practice. To date, I have received nearly 70 hours of training via books, video lessons, and in-person workshops, along with many uncounted hours of experiential learning over the course of nearly three years in private practice.

ACT is a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you to tay focused on the present moment and to accept thoughts and feelings without judgement. Being a yoga studio owner for 10 years, brings knowledge and experience in mindfulness. Ina ddition to individual sessions, I offer group therapy for anxiety that offers a unique setting including meditation, yoga and group processing which results in feeling more understood, and less isolated with what you are experiencin

Uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility; integrate and embrace full range of emotions rather than trying to minimize or deny